The highlights in June included a free-scoring see-sawing game against Raleigh CASL Elite which the Silverbacks emerged from as 4–3 winners, and an impressive 6–0 demolition West Virginia Chaos that featured a hat trick from defender John Drummond.

In fact, the season ended with the Silverbacks on a 5-game winning streak which included a massive 8–0 hammering of Cocoa Expos and a 2–0 final day victory against divisional champions Carolina Dynamo; however, the gods were not smiling on the men from Atlanta as Central Florida Kraze's 3–0 victory over Palm Beach in their final regular season game left the Silverbacks third in the division for a second year in a row, pipped at the post to the playoff spot on goal difference.

They began June with a whopping 7–1 demolition of Nashville Metros in which Chad Burt scored a hat trick, but thereafter the Silverbacks suffered a dip in form.

Despite winning three of their final games of the regular season, all of which were high scoring thrillers, and included a last-minute winner in the 3–2 victory over Nashville, and a 4–2 final day blowout over Carolina Dynamo in which Ryan Roushandel scored a hat trick, they were never quite able to make up the deficit brought on by their mid season slump, eventually finishing a close 4th in the Southeast Division, 6 point out of the playoffs.

Following the conclusion of the 2008 season, the team's parent organization, the senior Atlanta Silverbacks, announced they would be withdrawing from the 2009 USL First Division campaign in order to "assess the landscape".